Breaking down "What your favorite composer says about your personality"

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[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Leave a comment about your favorite composer🙌🏻

[@theyluvtwoset.13]

"FOR THE LAST TIME, I DO NOT LOOK LIKE HARRY POTTER!!!" - Shostakovich (my fav composer)

[@goldiefoggy]

Finnissy

[@pathikritdaskabya783]

I love all of them but Tchaikovsky is my faverite. he makes me feel comfortably numb.

[@user-dg3cf3oq9n]

I love Dvorak, Shostakovich and Mahler, but I've recently been getting into some of Bartok's pieces.

[@unsofy_07]

dvorak is my favorite but every composer is good (except pachelbel & handel)

[@hoangkimviet8545]

Beethoven when Carl says Handel is the favorite composer of no one: “Am I a joke to you?”

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

😂 Ok, this is was a damn good joke👊

[@M_SC]

Beethoven used to hold the place in society that Bach now does. He was considered the best and was everyone’s favourite. That’s why Schroeder from Peanuts (Charlie Brown) always plays Beethoven on the piano

[@parulrawat9893]

True... Handel deserves more love

[@dariomosbo4270]

Carl: "Verdi is for grandparents who don't listen to classical music". Me, an adolescent musician who would die in peace listening to Aida: 👴

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Ohhhhh, sorry😂

[@grouchomarx5609]

Laughs in Grand Inquisitor scene and Jago's "Credo" (and pretty much everything from La Forza del Destino and Simon Boccanegra).

[@grouchomarx5609]

Also Turandot is not that romantic opera and most famous Puccini's opera features not that romantic baritone-chief-of-the-police fella.

[@kellyrichardson3665]

Beethoven said that Handel was his favorite composer. My favorite composer is Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky's favorite composer was Mozart, but he explained it by saying it was Mozart's Overture to Don Giovanni that excited him as a kid (and that he doesn't know ALL that much more Mozart). When I heard that, it suddenly made sense. That overture by Mozart is thrilling. I particularly love the dark, crawly, eerie stuff, and I'm sure there is a lot of that in Swan Lake, the Pathetique Symphony and other works. My second favorite composer is Beethoven and you could say my first favorite composer was Beethoven -- because he was my favorite composer before Tchaikovsky took over. Tchaikovsky clearly liked Beethoven as well. The opening theme to the Pathetique Symphony are the same notes as Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata. It is not by coincidence. He also quotes Beethoven in other ways in works designed after works of Beethoven. Also, if you take the opening notes -- played in broken octaves -- played by the violin solo in Beethoven's Violin Concerto, remove the octaves, then add just ONE note, the B-flat, as a kind of "false start," you will find that the violinist plays those very same 8 notes at the beginning of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. It is no coincidence. I'm pretty happy with both composers. My favorite composer story just might be of Handel. It is said that he liked to eat and that one day he ordered seven main courses at a restaurant. When the waiter took forever to bring him the food, he pounded the table, "Where's my food?!!!" The waiter said, "I was waiting for the rest of the party" to which Handel replied, "I AM the rest of the party!!!!!!!!"

[@MarkSeinIII]

Pachelbel: You're probably a Pop composer.

[@AstrusHD]

Absolutely needed some of the explanations :) Maybe do a part 2 with Gustav Holst, Camille Saint-Saëns, Eric Satie etc.?

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Maybe at some point, who knows🙌🏻

[@grouchomarx5609]

And Schnittke!

[@AstrusHD]

@@Carl-FriedrichWelker Now I did it myself Carl! 😅

[@HarmoniousMelodies457]

Favourites are Beethoven and Liszt: very emotional, yet like flexing my piano skills in front of family and friends as well as my crushes.😅😅😅😅

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Especially the last ones😂

[@darthnihilus9342]

Have you ever heard Les Préludes by Liszt? And it's an orchestral flex

[@asky-ne7yz]

I am a writer of a fantasy novel, and i can defenitely say i have taken much inspiration from Ravel, his music just takes you to a different world, it's amazing.

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

10000% agree👊

[@MrVideoVagabond]

Yes, spot-on in regard to Ravel. He's my favorite and I am definitely a dreamer.

[@davidpadillagarza1146]

This video should be called ""what your favorite composer says about you" says about you".

[@MrVideoVagabond]

Toru Takemitsu -- you're placid, mellow and can gaze contemplatively upon a lake or woodland glade for hours on end.

[@Ziad3195]

ME

[@pinoiado]

im 19 and i want to study music, and I love Shostakovich's pieces I do love listening to mahler and imagining in a epic scene I'm depressive, therefore, Rach that's precise af

[@flabbybum9562]

Handel is my favourite composer.

[@HistoryWorld1826]

Mine too

[@lindildeev5721]

Haendel and Vivaldi share the same problem: they're known for one or two famous tunes and that sucks because they composed many other great pieces. And for Clara Schumann, it would be unfair to look over her beautiful lieder.

[@unsofy_07]

Haydn isn’t always happy he has angry pieces too

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Still don't like him very much, what pieces do you mean with angry?

[@unsofy_07]

Like the 45th symphony

[@MisterPathetique]

​@@unsofy_07Well, symphony 45 isn't "angry" properly speaking. Most people just don't get Haydn anyway. In fact, most people have never listened to any of his symphonies carefully. The guy literally invented everything, and he doesn't get any credit for it. The reason he's not as popular as someone like Beethoven is because his music doesn't have the same immediacy of expression. Haydn's music is rather sophisticated, but very few listeners care about that, so what can we do?

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

I accept that Haydn did invent everything, totally agree, still don't like it, maybe I'm just too young yet, Simon Rattle also loves Haydn.

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

gonna listen to it, thanks🙌🏻

[@xmorgana7789]

Händel is my favourite composer 😅

[@duartevader2709]

Im so sorry, I hope you get better!

[@HistoryWorld1826]

​@@duartevader2709no bro.. You're the one who needs a checkup for not acknowledging Handels vibrant and grant music. Hope you feel better :)

[@duartevader2709]

@@HistoryWorld1826 i dont think thats the reason why i need to get check up , rather i should because i listen to late Scriabin, wish me a good recovery :)!!!! (hadel aint doin anything tho to me)

[@cowaylon1681]

Handel is my favourite composer. I joke, it's actually Poulenc but even less people have him as their favourite than Handel.

[@yingyangmapper5399]

Let's be honest, Handel is no one's favourite composer

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Thanks👊😂

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Agreed, but as a flutist, there is a pretty awesome flute sonata🙌🏻

[@Hurb_]

I love Poulenc, especially his trio for bassoon, oboe, and piano and his sextet for winds and piano and also his concerto for two pianos. All of them are so good.

[@jacobtapianieto9655]

Although maybe not in my top list, Haydn is definitely so underrated. Without him we wouldn't have string quartes and symphonies as we know them structurewise. And also, he was an innovator talking about programatic music in symphony form (his 60th Symphony is really great).

[@uxvellda1112]

As a tchaikovsky fan, i felt validated when you said you're also a tchaik fan

[@uxvellda1112]

i also do love mahler, ravel, and rachmaninoff

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Who doesn't like Tchaikovsky🙌🏻

[@autoghg]

I loved these types of videos and now this comment on them is just great! My favorite composers are Mahler, Dvořák and Shostakovich. I'm a huge fan of symphonic works😂😂

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Those are great, Mahler at least top 5 for me🙌🏻

[@emanuelebabici]

You should definitely check out more on Prokofiev. I think his orchestral works top his piano works by miles, and hos Romeo and Juliet is THE perfect ballet. The music is just perfectly connected to the story. His Cinderella is also one of the most beautiful ballets. I find his 2nd and 3rd piano concertos absolutely amazing, and his 1st symphony is an iconic masterpiece. I'd say if your favourite composer is Prokofiev, you probably think you live in a world full of wizards and magic, his music just has this magical nuance to it

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

I would say the Nutcracker is the best ballet an you can fight me on that😂but yeah Romeo and Juliet, I know some great parts

[@parulrawat9893]

I dont get it how people dislike or even hate Handel, and at the same time love Bach and Beethoven, one with whom his music seemed similar in taste, and one who lit quoted "Handel is the master of all, and ill kneel down near his tomb and uncover my head".when asked abt fav composer+best i cannot think anyone except Handel, Bach and Mozart and Beethoven

[@briantorres3559]

Tchaikovsky

[@jesustovar2549]

Except for Mozart and Haydn, I think we would go along very well, since we like a lot of german and romantic composers as well as impressionistics, I agree with you on your operatic takes about Wagner, Puccini (he might be my favorite opera composer too, so accessible) and Strauss, BUT I LOVE VERDI'S REQUIEM, probably the most EPIC thing he did outside opera, and yeah I love symphonies from Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Dvořák, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius, Bruckner and Mahler (you got me, I'm a Christopher Nolan fan). I saw another video like this saying that ir "you love Wagner, you most likely love film music" and I think it's more accurate to my persona since I'm a big movie buff. Btw my Great Uncle loves Handel, mostly because he went to England and he loves british culture (most of his favorite rock bands are english, he's a beatlemaniac).

[@HistoryWorld1826]

Handel is my favorite composer.... And there's nothing wrong in it..

[@mechantl0up]

Germany and Poland are basically the same thing because they share a border. And no-one knows a single difference between Switzerland, Austria, and Germany.

[@kaworunagisa4009]

Germany: relatively affordable Austria: definitely not affordable Switzerland: super-super not affordable 😂

[@oliverwakila]

I wish you uploaded a list of the songs you used! 😍😭

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Someone wrote them in the comments, at least in the original🙌🏻

[@Ashtavius]

@@Carl-FriedrichWelkercan you pin that comment please?

[@A_Muzik]

What’s your review of Jean Philippe Rameau?

[@AnAverageGabe]

is this an apology video?

[@francescaemc2]

How dare you put Beethoven in front of a Trump building"????

[@randomplayer3582]

PLEASE from what piece is the extract you use for litz ? I CAN'T FIND IT and this makes me a bit maniac. Thanks by advance to anyone responding, time code : 3:50

[@Medtnermatic2000]

Sorry to be a bit late, you've probably calmed down a bit by now, but it's the Spanish Rhapsody.

[@jozef4494]

Hi, great video. One should not be devoted to the only one composer, that´s the point. BTW, what piece of Prokofiev did you use??? (I´m not a musician.)

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

I think it was Prokofieff Sonata number 6 from the beginning, or it might be the beginning of sonata 7🙌🏻

[@jozef4494]

@@Carl-FriedrichWelker Thanks.

[@reyskywalker9409]

my favorites are rachmaninoff and mahler , and I can say this is pretty accurate 😂😂

[@g.mechin9073]

Me too! 😄

[@reyskywalker9409]

@@g.mechin9073 haha😂

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Great choice, both are in my top ten as well👊

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Those are two of the best, can't argue with that🙌🏻

[@jesustovar2549]

Same

[@rotum1324]

Mozart uses the same chord progressions, but the voice leading is clever and solid. But he just uses the same chord progression if you think about a chord like a jazz musician, if you you view the single melodic lines, then Mozart uses various types of chord progressions/contrapuntal lines. If you view every chord as functional derivatives of the I or V, extensions and the use of relative major and minor chords smear the line between major and minor (modes) wich does not generally fit the style of Mozart. I also wouldn’t say that Mozart is repetitive at all even though he is more strict on keeping the original form of a motif when creating variations, then let’s say Beethoven in general.

[@yingyangmapper5399]

I personally think that Tchaikovsky is the best composer overall, his concertos, symphonies and even ballets are sublime.

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Especially the ballets, love them so much😂

[@arielorthmann4061]

I don't think you can say he's the best. A lot of people really like him, but there are also quite a few musicians who really can't stand his music at all

[@unarmmd4198]

@@arielorthmann4061That’s why he said he “personally think”

[@arielorthmann4061]

@@unarmmd4198 well it's not the same to say "best composer overall" and "my favorite composer"

[@yingyangmapper5399]

@@arielorthmann4061 I meant that he was the best composer overall, personally

[@marcus8258]

Handel is my favourite composer!:-)

[@ralphcanfield9555]

Handel is my favorite

[@user-kb6rl4nr8e]

how do you explain dvorak's appreciation of Wagner?

[@jesustovar2549]

Not only Dvořák, but Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss, even Debussy at some point of his life. Even Brahms loved Wagner's music, most people don't know thst.

[@sagittariusa5304]

My favorite composers are Thomas Bergersen, Ivan Torrent and Antti Martikainen.

[@robertmerdokh8514]

can i ask about the title of brahms's piece you used ?

[@adretter]

Brahms - 4th Symphony 1. Mvt.

[@DelphicRachel]

Bela Bartok is my favourite... I dunno what that says about me and I don't know if I wanna know.

[@johnchessant3012]

6:52 oh I thought this was a reference to the Barbie and 12 dancing princesses movie that had this as the soundtrack

[@yeonungkim5457]

I love Brahms' melodies, and I would consider myself a perfectionist and a bit of a psycho - so I really felt called out there. Also, I really love Debussy but Ravel not so much, for some reason

[@darthnihilus9342]

For R. Strauss you're either bloodthirsty or you just really like the Horn Concerto's he's written 😅

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

second one is great 👍🏻

[@carlowelker926]

Hallo Carl. A great overview of the important composers with a personal touch. I like that.

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Thanks🙌🏻

[@anunconstitutionalchickenw9731]

I think that a lot of Handel's best music is sort of hidden behind the pomp of Water Music, Royal Fireworks or the Messiah

[@sumsum5999]

my favs are dvorak and mendelssohn :D nice video

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Thanks👍🏻

[@ibish9513]

Bartók also folk 😇😇

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Agreed

[@joaoguimaraes7822]

Y ❤❤❤ Verdi, from Brazil

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

😬

[@hel13ay]

Beethoven, Chopin, Scriabin, Rachmanonv, Verdi 😉😇

[@maximilianhaslbeck5366]

seit wann hat Lahav Shani einen Yt-acc? :D

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

? Seh ich so aus😂

[@maximilianhaslbeck5366]

ja schon ein bisschen :) aber ganz btw wirklich starker channel, hab ihn grade entdeckt und mir schon deine practice checklist ausgedruckt 👍@@Carl-FriedrichWelker

[@bbbartolo]

Debussy looks similar to WHOM??... and so much for identifying with Prokofiev - being neither Asian nor a pianist. But the concept is fun

[@user-bk5bv9jn2z]

6:16 Listen to Macbeth, Don Carlos or Otello, and I'm sure you'll think otherwise.

[@jesustovar2549]

Verdi Shakespearian's trilogy is a must, also I LOVE Othello, he went pretty close to Wagner in that.

[@grouchomarx5609]

@@jesustovar2549 Some would even argue that Verdi's Otello is closer related to the German Musikdrama (a la Wagner) than to the traditional Italian opera

[@nobumiau6472]

Or Rigoletto, Trovatore, Ballo in Maschera, Forza del Destino! And Falstaff! I think Verdi is only paired by Wagner in opera repertoire, in spite of or because I am a Wagnerian.

[@emilev2134]

Ravel and Rautavaara for me I think.

[@cornmuffin8396]

My favorite composer is Carl Nielsen.

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Interesting🙌🏻

[@jesustovar2549]

I love Nielsen's symphonies too

[@hawhyanusjiwana585]

0:21 Bach 0:30 Beethoven 0:42 Mozart 1:13 Mahler 1:18 Bruckner 1:37 Brahms 1:58 Schubert 2:16 Schumann 2:39 Ranchmaninoff 3:03 Ravel 3:24 Stravinsky 3:48 Liszt 4:00 R. Strauss 4:17 Chopin 4:32 Tchaikovsky 5:05 Wagner 5:24 Verdi 5:42 Puccini 6:06 Hayden 6:32 Händel 6:34 Debussy 6:53 Mendelssohn 7:12 Shostakovich 7:34 Schömberg 7:49 Sibelius 8:04 Dvorak 8:16 Bartok 8:31 Prokofiev 8:42 Clara Schumann

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Thanks🙌🏻

[@hawhyanusjiwana585]

Love your work ahehehheheh 😅. Just keep away Puccini from Tchaikovsky

[@GabrielLis-jd6gx]

Completely out of context.

[@robertagregory7177]

About the only thing I agree with is Tchaikovsky is great.

[@alexmg3648]

I love Rossini someone tell me what's wrong with me

[@jesustovar2549]

Nothing wrong, I love his overtures, but his óperas are really ignores nowadays, aside from La Cerentola and Barber of Seville.

[@angelicart.6]

6:33 you’re luckiest mf I’ve ever heard of then. I was friend with a girl that said he was her favourite composer, that’s why I’m not her friend anymore

[@angelicart.6]

joke, she was just a toxic ahh bi

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Hahaha

[@_theparlinka90]

Considering how many extraordinary pieces Dvořák gave us, and how rarely he’s performed around the globe, I feel like he’s one of the most underloved composers around (you wrote a perfect interpretation, you know the guy you have in front is truly interesting if his fav composer is the might Antonin), in facts besides the mighty 8th and 9th simphony he composed the water goblin, in nature’s realm, the czech suite, the well known cello concerto, the dumky trio, the 8 humoresques and all of the slavonic dances. Masterpieces

[@jesustovar2549]

Dvořák underperformed? His 9th symphony is very well known, slavonic dances too I love them, whar about his serenade for strings? But I agree his tone poems are really underrated.

[@_theparlinka90]

⁠@@jesustovar2549well that‘s just my point of view, here in Italy at least, the only pieces by him that see frequent performances are, as you said, his last symphonies whereas all the chamber or solo music is quite forgotten about

[@marinKem]

🙂

[@emeralddreams888]

It's kinda sad that a German can't tell the difference between Sweden and Finland, like... you're so close to them. Also you could've rectified it by actually saying something meaningful about Sibelius, one of the greatest symphonists of all time. Also which piece did you use by Clara Schumann? It's gorgeous.

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

I think it was Opus 21 no 1, I know the difference, but Scandinavia....😂same

[@iclodnelcutjwldlrow6386]

My favourite composer is prokofiev and I'm an asian pianist😮

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

😱

[@cht2162]

Charles Ives

[@jacksonhover9654]

Ives: you’re an irritating prick (no hate just lore accurate)

[@davidfarrar2454]

Tchaikovsky!

[@FLOJo83]

Mahler…that’s all

[@kurtporschmann2530]

Johann Strauss II? No one..?

[@jesustovar2549]

Finally, I feel listened, we Johann Strauss fans are mostly ignored until New Year Concert comes out.

[@Siansonea]

I'm not a music nerd by any means, I don't play any instruments, but I always disliked Haydn. Never could see the appeal. I'm glad it's not just that I "don't get it" or whatever. My favorite composer changes from day to day, but it's Debussy a lot of days, so maybe that's just all my different personalities popping in to say hello.

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Debussy, good choice, then you probably love Ravel as well, though quite different🙌🏻

[@Siansonea]

@@Carl-FriedrichWelker Ravel "slaps", as the kids say, but I think my other favorites would be Lizst, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Mahler and Schubert. But I also really like Bach and Beethoven and Mozart and the like. But really, every time I do a deep dive in any composer, it's that meme with the anime kid and the butterfly _"is this my favorite composer?"_

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Mine also changes also every day, when I listen to a piece by Mahler I think, damn he must be my favorite, then I listen to Tchaikovsky, and then him is my favorite again😂

[@emeralddreams888]

This piece changed my mind! kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z53WnH6rhqqJrMk

[@Ziad3195]

Haydn is phenomenal. I love Classical Era style. But my favourite composer is Debussy.

[@triumphantmichael]

Handel was Mozart's and Beethoven's best composer

[@grouchomarx5609]

Verdi's too happy? Sorry, but you are completely clueless.

[@Ashtavius]

Haydn/Tchaikovsky/Dvorak

[@theoandriessen514]

I'm with Hannibal Lector....😂

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Anthony Hopkins is certainly not a bad choice😂

[@Faust_Sceptique]

Wagner is the best composer. Change my mind

[@mr.hashundredsofprivatepla3711]

1:33 No, you’re not really. Bruckner is the sickest one in this hospital.

[@arielorthmann4061]

Schönberg is in my top 10 favorite composers lol (im not a german music theory teacher 😅

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

How can you😱

[@arielorthmann4061]

@@Carl-FriedrichWelker idk it's just so good

[@Michaela1942]

We should get along well as I love a lot of the composers you don't like. I really, really don't like Wagner at all, BTW - bombastic to a ridiculous degree (probably why Hitler loved his works).

[@jesustovar2549]

"Bombastic to a ridiculous degree", that's probably the reason I like him, I love EPIC music, I also love film music so it's a complement, Wagner really developed a lot of aspects that will continue in cinema, writing his own scripts, designing his own theatre and scenario, he was a proto-filmmaker, it's because of him that lights are turned off in cinemas when a movie starts, he applied to that to opera. In case you're wondering, I'M NOT a racist dictator, stop dismissing Wagner fans as if we're all toxic, I know elder wagnerians that are nicest people, there are Wagner pieces that are calm, his piano pieces are REAAAALLY obscure, Siegfried Idyll is very nice to hear in it's version for chamber Orchestra.

[@understand5238]

So i dont need iq test my favorite composer ls bach therefore iam smart 😏

[@BKNeifert]

Dude, no need to apologize. You were spot on. In a strange sort of way. It's hysterical. The one that killed me was, "Likes Ananas on their Pizza". Like I totally got that instantly, though I don't know why. :) Why would religion make you a sick person? It's there to make you change your life, and be a better person. No... it's not just about you. I get the joke... it's highly accurate, again in a strange sort of way. Tchaikovsky, just listen to the Cherubim Hymn. That's one of my favorites. That style of music was mourning Russia's decline. Handel's Messiah is one of my top favorite classic pieces. It just hits every musical range, and is about 100 years ahead of its time at parts. My favorites are Dvorak and Tchaikovsky. Seriously, listen to this performance of Handel's Messiah. You'll come away with a new appreciation for him: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHmWhWmPrNyIb9U

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Never said that religion makes you a sick person, I want to make the very clear. I don't think I said it😂

[@BKNeifert]

@@Carl-FriedrichWelker Well that's good.

[@BKNeifert]

@@Carl-FriedrichWelkerHey, but some people do these days. I had to be sure. May a blessing rest upon you.

[@PristineCXV]

bro cannot say depth

[@Carl-FriedrichWelker]

Sorry, looked it up for next time😂

[@francescaemc2]

You compare Beethoven to Trump???? You lose any intellectual, musical and artistic credibility. Shame on you.

[@user-ud1oi4mb7k]

Did You delete your old video about what your favorite symphony says about you, or you've never had such a video and it's just me going insane?🥲

[@hunt3r36]

NOBODY IS PERFECT AND EVERYBODY HAS AN OPINION. I DO NOT AGREE WITH YOU ON SOME, ESPECIALLY ABOUT WHOM I CONSIDER THE VERY BEST. THE GREATEST OF OPERA COMPOSERS.

[@heather4595]

Hail Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert. Almighty classical trinity!!!! You look more like a Nicki Minaj fan fr.....